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Can it be? Can it possibly be? In a world replete with tweets and texts and sound bites, is proper grammar making a comeback?<\/p>\n

A small flurry of coverage in the media has this grammar geek throwing caution to the wind. Giddy with excitement, I teeter on a dangerous cliff of improper usage: punctuating my inward thoughts with mental exclamation points and dangling my prepositions for the world to see. Naughty, naughty!<\/p>\n

The media circus began with the Save the Serial Comma from Extinction Debate. You can read the case for extinction here<\/a> and compare it to the case against extinction here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not a black and white matter at all, is it? No wonder passionate proponents of proper grammar – editors, writers, and teachers – are using the media to raise public awareness and champion their cause. Next thing we know, California\u2019s English majors will propose drafting a proposition and bringing it to a vote.<\/p>\n

But even if the Serial Comma Debate cools, grammar will still be the spotlight, at least in the grammatically conscious midwest. The Des Moines Register, Iowa\u2019s biggest newspaper, used a substantial amount of ink on Sunday. An article touted the services of Dr. Grammar<\/a>, aka Linda Adkins, a mild-mannered University of Northern Iowa (UNI) writing instructor. (If \u201cUNI\u201d rings a bell, their Panther basketball team took down Kansas during March Madness, 2010. Not that I\u2019m bragging or anything.)<\/p>\n

In real life, Adkins teaches college writing and research at UNI. But in the virtual world, Dr. Grammar, diagnoses and treats grammar gaffes at the Dr. Grammar website, www.drgrammar.org<\/a>. If your niggling grammar issue keeps you awake at night, you can click the \u201cask a question\u201d link on the home page and submit your query to Dr. Grammar.<\/p>\n

Now that concept is a media attention grabber guaranteed to trip the trigger of every red-blooded language lover in the US of A. This could become a clarion call, a rallying cry, the dawn of a new era of well-spoken life in our land.<\/p>\n

Grammar geeks, unite! The time for well-spoken speech has arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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